BILL NUMBER: AB 1	CHAPTERED  07/28/99

	CHAPTER   191
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 28, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 27, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 15, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JUNE 2, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 28, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   FEBRUARY 11, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Aanestad
   (Coauthor: Senator Leslie)

                        DECEMBER 7, 1998

   An act to amend Section 42285.3 of the Education Code, relating to
school finance, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1, Aanestad.  School finance:  necessary small schools:
necessary small high schools.
   Under existing law, a unified school district that is the only
school district in a county, that received specified amounts of
federal Forest Reserve funds and that has fewer than 4,501 units of
average daily attendance, is eligible to receive apportionments for
necessary small schools and necessary small high schools.  The
provision that establishes this eligibility becomes inoperative on
July 1, 1999, and as of January 1, 2000, is repealed.
   This bill would instead provide that the provision that
establishes this eligibility becomes inoperative on July 1, 2002, and
as of January 1, 2003, is repealed and would require a school
district that receives apportionments pursuant to this provision to
report to the State Department of Education and the Department of
Finance by July 1, 2001, concerning the district's plan to address
the district's need for additional funding when this section is
repealed.
   This bill would declare that its provisions would become effective
immediately as an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 42285.3 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   42285.3.  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 42280 or
any other provision of law, a unified school district that is the
only school district in a county, that has received more than two
million seven hundred thousand dollars ($2,700,000) in federal Forest
Reserve funds in the 1992-93 school year and less than one million
three hundred thousand dollars ($1,300,000) in federal Forest Reserve
funds in the 1996-97 school year, and that has fewer than 4,501
units of average daily attendance in the 1997-98 school year or in
subsequent school years shall be eligible to receive apportionments
pursuant to the schedules for a "necessary small school" and a
"necessary small high school," as set forth in this article, for up
to the total number of schools in the district that would have met
the criteria for classification as a necessary small school or a
necessary small high school in the 1996-97 fiscal year, if the
district had fewer than 2,501 units of average daily attendance in
the 1996-97 fiscal year, except that this section shall not apply in
any school year in which an otherwise eligible school district
receives more than two million dollars ($2,000,000) in federal Forest
Reserve funds.
   (b) A school district that receives apportionments pursuant to the
schedules for a necessary small school and a necessary small high
school under subdivision (a) shall report to the State Department of
Education and the Department of Finance by July 1, 2001, concerning
the district's plan to address the district's need for additional
funding when this section is repealed.
   (c)  This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2002, and,
as of January 1, 2003, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute
that is enacted before January 1, 2003, deletes or extends the dates
on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   To provide needed funding to enable necessary small school and
necessary small high schools to continue educating pupils, it is
necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
